Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-04-29
NEWS NOTES.
DOMESTIC,


By collision on the main line of the
| Louisville, Evansville & St Louis air line
railroad, near Taswell Ohio, three men were
killed, two fatally injured, and two others
are missing.
A letter from Rudolph Schnaubelt, the
much looked for Anarchist and alleged
thtower of the Haymarket bomb, has been
! Christiana, Norway, Feb. Z, 1887 The
| fugitive denies throwing the bomb, but
intimates he is sorry he did not do it.
A bill has passed the New York assembly
| making pool selling on race tracks legal for
| 80 days during the summer.
Mr.. Corcoran, the aged philanthropist,
! will be theguest of Charles, on at the unveil-
| ing of the Calhoun statute on the 26th.
Nearly s., OOO, 900 OF old navy yard matters
ais will be sold this spring.
A new silver vault is soon to be built in the
| treasury building al washington, to have
storage capacity of 100, 900, 900 silver dollars.
Frank M. Scott. who embezzled $26, 900
while book-keeper for Charles L. Webster &
| Co., Mark Twain's publishers, in New
York city, pleaded guilty and was sen fenced
to six years at Sing Sing.
| Advices received at San Francisco state
that the Yokohama specie bank has in
creased its capital from S3,OOO,0OO to Sc,
! 000,000
A st. Louis paper states on the alleged
| authority of Colonel Dorsheimer, that Presie
dent Cleveland has written a formal letter
| declaring that he would not again be a can
| didate for the presidency, but withholds the
| document from the public at the entreaties
| of friends.
The German societies of New York city are
in arms against the theatrical license law.
The police have forbidden them to use a
| piano at their rehearsals in halls adjoining
saloons as violation OF law.
| A dispute over fifty cents caused murder
at Clarkesburg, West Virginia. Ike Cat
| rel, a coal miner, had an account with James
Freeman and after dark Catrell went to
Freeman to settle up. The two men differed
to the extent Of half dollar and from words
| they proceeded to settle the matter by blows.
In the fight Freeman drew a clasp-knife and
stabbed CaGrell in the breast, the latter dying
from the wound. Freeman, who is about 60
| years of age, has so far evaied arrest.
At Marietta and Harmon, West ' frginia
! on he Ohio side of the river, fires have been
of daily occurrence in each town, on some
nights three or four blaz IS being started.
The Brush Electric Light Company's works
in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the corner of Plum
and Canal Streets were recently destroyed by
| fire.
| Otto White, alias Veitch, German boy in
| NeW 1OIk CilJ, Wno was dCcuSeu OIL SnOOC-
ing and killing Louisa Wolfe, a servant girl
in the house of his stepmother, whom he mis-
| took for the latter, and who was convicted Of
murder in the second degree, has been ar
raigned for sentence. His counsel made a
motion for new trial. but this was denied,
and Ju ge Van Brunt sentenced him to state
| prison for life.
General Beauregard's recent communica-
tion in regard to Jeffers' DAVIS remarks
at the unveiling of the Albert Sidney John
ston statue, April 6, has called out spirited
reply from Mr.. Davis. The latter reiterates
his statement that Johnstons dispatch OK
planning his plan of the Shiloh battle was
lost, aud says the one produced by Beaure-
gard is not the one referred to. Nothing
ever written by Mr.. Davis has created q
greater stir than his reply to Beauregard.